and she doesn't know know how it ends

1/31/2011 8:31:40 PM

1/31/2011 8:32:31 PM

go get the hachet

1/31/2011 8:33:26 PM

I love that book so fucking much

1/31/2011 8:33:39 PM

how do you NOT know how it ends?

hello 4th grade america.

1/31/2011 8:35:50 PM

you better find an errand that you need to run pretty quick

1/31/2011 8:36:22 PM

have tissues on the ready

1/31/2011 8:36:43 PM

no pussy for you tonight

1/31/2011 8:37:11 PM

i love when the dogs tree that coon in the biggest tree around and just when he's about to give up, the wind blows it over

awesome book/movie

1/31/2011 8:57:24 PM

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"hello 4th grade america."

lol u dumb.

we read that in 3rd grade.

I'M SMRTER THAN YOU

1/31/2011 9:21:33 PM

lame. I got all excited that it might be on TV. thanks for getting my hopes up

1/31/2011 9:29:30 PM

i didn't read this as part of a school assignment

[Edited on January 31, 2011 at 9:34 PM. Reason : maybe wayne county schools were behind the times or something]

1/31/2011 9:33:03 PM

love it, but yeah, you might want her to go run an errand before it ends.

1/31/2011 9:34:13 PM

really? man i thought everyone had to read it in elementary school. AND it was totally on the accelerated reader list in middle school. AND beyond that it just seems like one of those rite of passage books that all kids read. i guess i'm wrong. i don't think i've ever met anyone that hasn't read it/seen the movie/known the story.

i was also a nerd child and own the book and have probably read it like 27 times. i was one of those sit in a tree and read 24/7 kids. like wouldn't do my chores or hw because i'd be reading.

[Edited on January 31, 2011 at 9:38 PM. Reason : .]

1/31/2011 9:35:49 PM

I haven't seen the movie, but damn the book was sad.

1/31/2011 9:38:22 PM

it's no hatchet

1/31/2011 9:39:18 PM

now i did have to read hatchet for school in 5th grade. that book was awesome.

1/31/2011 9:40:13 PM

that was one of my fav books of all time. ever ever. still to this day haha. oh hatchet. i wonder if i reread it now if i'd like it as much. i still have it. maybe i will give it a shot

1/31/2011 9:41:25 PM

[Edited on January 31, 2011 at 9:43 PM. Reason : nevermind about that, thinking of another author]

1/31/2011 9:42:25 PM

did you guys read the hatchet sequels?

1/31/2011 9:45:09 PM

no. i didn't know they existed until a few years ago.

1/31/2011 9:50:39 PM

My mom started reading this book like the day after our first dog got ran over and died.

She had never read it before and didn't realize what happened at the end.

1/31/2011 9:52:17 PM

yeah, except for the one from 2003. they're collectively called Brian's Saga btw.

Another good one is My Side of the Mountain, which i recently learned was written by a woman

1/31/2011 9:53:10 PM

what's the one where the boy goes up into the catskills with a pen knife and some other shit? is is that^ one?

i loved all those wilderness/survival/etc. books

[Edited on January 31, 2011 at 9:55 PM. Reason : i think he had a fire in a old turtle shell full of oil or something]

1/31/2011 9:54:33 PM

yeah, that's my side of the mountain.

1/31/2011 9:55:04 PM

1/31/2011 9:55:06 PM

ohhh i loved my side of the mountain, too

i also liked where the lilies bloom (a littler girlier i guess)

and the education of little tree

1/31/2011 9:57:24 PM

i kinda wanna go back and read some of these books, but i'm afraid the elementary reading level would ruin it for me

1/31/2011 9:58:46 PM

same. that and my imagination is obviously a lot different from when i was little. i don't want to ruin they way i remember the books/stories in my mind.

1/31/2011 9:59:37 PM

exactly

i guess i should just move on to shit like walden

actually, i really wanna read stephen hunter's stuff

i'm dropping a hint for a bday present idea for when deemarie post stalks me tomorrow

1/31/2011 10:01:16 PM

you made a facebook post and a TWW thread. attention whoring much?

1/31/2011 10:44:09 PM

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"lame. I got all excited that it might be on TV. thanks for getting my hopes up"

haha me too.

1/31/2011 10:47:37 PM

anybody else read Circle Of Fire in elementary school?

I still have an autographed copy from when the author came in and spoke to our class

1/31/2011 11:08:21 PM

Where the Red Fern Grows is still readable as an adult, not sure about My Side of the Mountain.

2/1/2011 1:56:56 AM

^^ I've never heard of it.

2/1/2011 2:02:07 AM

Other depressing preteen lterature:

Bridge to Terabithia
A Taste of Blackberries

2/1/2011 2:11:43 AM

^adding to the list, ages range from a child to early highschool.

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
The Little Match Girl
The Giving Tree
Lord of the Flies
Flowers for Algernon
Charlotte's Web
The Giver
Old Yeller
The Great Gatsby
The Velveteen Rabbit
All Quiet On the Western Front
To Kill A Mockingbird
Ender's Game

Okay so maybe some of these are a stretch but whatever. Everything is depressing.

The rest of high school literature was even more depressing.

Granted none of it really compares to holocaust literature and modernism, ugh.

2/1/2011 2:27:23 AM

I remember reading My Brother Sam Is Dead in 5th grade and everybody freaking out about how awesome it was to read a book with so many cuss words in it

[Edited on February 1, 2011 at 6:07 AM. Reason : serious lack of sleep]

2/1/2011 6:06:20 AM

I loved Hatchet and My Side of the Mountain
Movie wasn't too bad either.

Anyone else have to read Sign of the Beaver?

2/1/2011 7:42:38 AM

2/1/2011 7:50:34 AM

^ Great book

2/1/2011 9:06:54 AM

I read Grapes of Wrath in elementary school. Does that make me weird?

2/1/2011 9:06:56 AM

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" ill knock the fire out of you."

Best part of movie.

2/1/2011 9:18:39 AM

I, too, don't know how the movie ends.


Or begins...


Or goes....


But it sounds super familiar from what you guys are saying.

2/1/2011 9:58:19 AM

Quote :

" I, too, don't know how the movie ends. Or begins... Or goes.... "

2/1/2011 10:00:37 AM

this apparently warranted not only a facebook update, but a tww thread

2/1/2011 11:00:55 AM

Quote :

"Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl The Little Match Girl The Giving Tree Lord of the Flies Flowers for Algernon Charlotte's Web The Giver Old Yeller The Great Gatsby The Velveteen Rabbit All Quiet On the Western Front To Kill A Mockingbird Ender's Game "

what. some of these are not depressing at all. or maybe i just took something else away from them...

2/1/2011 4:31:46 PM